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Peripheries emerge as a result of shifts in economic and political decision-making at various scales. Therefore peripheral spaces are not a "natural" phenomenon but an outcome of the intrinsic logic of uneven geographical development in capitalist societies. Discussing examples from Germany, Eastern Europe, Turkey, Iraqi Kurdistan, Pakistan, India and Brazil, the volume describes the social production of peripheries from different theoretical and methodological perspectives. In so doing, it argues in favour of a re-politicization of the recent debate on peripheralization.

With contributions by Andrea Fischer-Tahir, Matthias Naumann, Eren Düzgün, Benjamin Zachariah, Thilo Lang, Tim Leibert, Alexandru Banica, Marinela Istrate, Daniel Tudora, Anja Reichert-Schick, Sabine Beisswenger, Thomas Bürk, Dolarice Sátyro Maia, Arian Mahzouni, Antía Mato Bouzas.

The great migration of farmers leaving rural China to work and live in big cities as?floaters? has been an on-going debate in China for the past three decades. This book probes into the spatial mobility of migrant workers in Beijing, China, and questions the city?rights? issues beneath the city-making movement in contemporary China. In revealing and explaining the socio-spatial injustice phenomenon, this volume re-theorizes the?right to the city? in the Chinese context since Deng Xiaoping?s reforms. The policy review, census analysis, and housing survey are conducted to examine the housing rights of migrant workers, who are the least protected and most marginalized displacee groups in Beijing. The comparable studies serve to distinguish the displaced migrants from local displacee groups, and Beijing Municipality?s style of governance towards its urban informalities from that in other Third World cities like São Paulo. The reader will gain a better understanding of migrant workers? housing rights in China?s globalizing and branding primary cities. Audience: This book will be of great interest to researchers and policy makers in housing supplies, governance towards urban informalities, human rights and migration control, and housing-related social discontent issues in China today.

Ordinary in Brighton? offers the first large scale examination of the impact of the UK equalities legislation on lesbian, gay, bi- and trans (LGBT) lives, and the effects of these changes on LGBT political activism. Using the participatory research project, Count Me In Too, this book investigates the material issues of social/spatial injustice that were pertinent for some - but not all- LGBT people, and explores activisms working in partnership that operated with/within the state. Ordinary in Brighton? explores the unevenly felt consequences of assimilation and inclusion in a city that was compelled to provide a place (literally and figuratively) for LGBT people. Brighton itself is understood to be exceptional, and exploring this specific location provides insights into how place operates as constitutive of lives and activisms. Despite its placing as 'the gay capital' and its long history as a favoured location of LGBT people, there is very little academic or popular literature published about this city. This book offers insights into the first decade of the 21st century when sexual and gender dissidents supposedly became ordinary here, rather than exceptional and transgressive. It argues that geographical imaginings of this city as the 'gay capital' formed activisms that sought positive social change for LGBT people. The possibilities of legislative change and urban inclusivities enabled some LGBT people to live ordinary lives, but this potential existed in tension with normalisations and exclusions. Alongside the necessary critiques, Ordinary in Brighton? asks for conceptualisations of the creative and co-operative possibilities of ordinariness. The book concludes by differentiating the exclusionary ideals of normalisation from the possibilities of ordinariness, which has the potential to render a range of people not only in-place, but

Foreword : Reconciliation without magic : preface honouring Nelson Mandela / Donna Orange – Introduction : Breaking intergenerational cycles of repetition / Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela – Disrupting the intergenerational transmission of trauma : recovering humanity, repairing generations / Jeffrey Prager – Rethinking remorse : the problem of the banality of full disclosure in testimonies from South Africa / Juliet Brough Rogers – Towards the poetic justice of reparative citizenship / AJ Barnard-Naudé – "Moving beyond violence" : what we learn from two former combatants about the transition from aggression to recognition / Jessica Benjamin – Unsettling empathy : intercultural dialogue in the aftermath of historical and cultural trauma / Björn Krondorfer – Interrupting cycles of repetition : creating spaces for dialogue, facing and mourning the past / Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela – Memoryscapes, spatial legacies of conflict, and the culture of historical reconciliation in 'post-conflict' Belfast / Graham Dawson – The Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) and its traumatic consequences / André Wessels – Breaking the cycles of repetition? The Cambodian genocide across generations in Anlong Veng / Angeliki Kanavou, Kosal Path and Kathleen Doll – Reflections on post-apology Australia : from a poetics of reparation to a poetics of survival / Rosanne Kennedy – Ending the haunting, halting whisperings of the unspoken : confronting the Haitian past in the literary works of Agnant, Danticat, and Trouillot / Sarah Davies Cordova – Intergenerational Jewish trauma in the contemporary South African novel / Ewald Mengel – Handing down the Holocaust in Germany : a reflection on the dialogue between second generation descendants of perpetrators and survivors / Beata Hammerich, Johannes Pfäfflin, Peter Pogany-Wnendt, Erda Siebert and Bernd Sonntag – Confronting the past, engaging the other in the present : the intergenerational healing journey of a Holocaust survivor and his children / Jeff Kelly Lowenstein, Dunreith Kelly Lowenstein and Edward Lowenstein – Breaking the cycles of trauma and violence : psychosocial approaches to healing and reconciliation in Burundi / Wendy Lambourne and David Niyonzima – Breaking cycles of trauma through diversified pathways to healing : Western and indigenous approaches with survivors of torture and war / Shanee Stepakoff – Acting together to disrupt cycles of violence : performance and social healing / Polly Walker – Epilogue : "They did not see the bodies" : confronting and embracing in the post-Apartheid university / Jonathan Jansen.